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A little wonder, every day

An Arctic vault backs up crop seeds

Michael Major for Crop Trust, exterior of Svalbard Global Seed Vault on 26 February 2025. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. This is the 1,920-pixel Wikimedia thumbnail rendition; no additional edits. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault_February_2025.jpg
NordGen / Dag Terje Filip Endresen, storage containers inside the Seed Vault on 27 February 2008. Wikimedia Commons; public domain dedication; photographer requests acknowledgement. This is the 1,920-pixel Wikimedia thumbnail rendition; no additional edits. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Storage_containers_in_Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault_01.jpg
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Michael Major for Crop Trust, exterior of Svalbard Global Seed Vault on 26 February 2025. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. This is the 1,920-pixel Wikimedia thumbnail rendition; no additional edits. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault_February_2025.jpg

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway opened in 2008, about 1,000 km from the North Pole. It stores duplicate seed samples from genebanks to help restore their collections if the originals are lost. In 2026, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization reported that more than 1.4 million samples were stored there. The vault is carved into a mountain; it has three halls, each about 9.5 × 27 metres, with a total capacity of up to 4.5 million samples.